Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: New resources - pls, explain :-( |
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI wrote: > maybe there is a little misunderstaniding. I thought that acquire_pci_dev > should do (sorry for exact names of locking functions):
Whatever it does, it cannot work correctly.
Either it tries to allocate too much (everything), or not enough. The basic problem is that it really isn't how a driver works.
It can cerainly be thought of as a _helper_ function for one specific common case, but it cannot and should not be thought upon as the fundamental form of resource allocation. If a driver wants to just allocate the ports by hand, that makes in my opinion as much if not more sense than to call a "acquire_pci_dev" thing.
Linus
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